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Haagen-Dazs Spoon Vege Ice Cream: Why?

Recently, my husband and I “enjoyed” both flavors of Haagen-Dazs’s new Spoon Vege ice cream, which went on sale in Japan on May 12.

The first flavor we tried was Carrot-Orange (キャロットオレンジ), which we determined likely to be the less horrible of the two.

Nice color! Looks like sherbert.

The taste was like a modified orange, like a kind of mango or something. It wasn’t bad at all…until the aftertaste hit.

BITTER. So bitter. The aftertaste was like licking earwax. Are carrots bitter??

I washed it down with this: Kirin’s Kajitsu to Peel no Osake (果実とピールのお酒／Fruit Juice and Peel Alcohol), a canned vodka cocktail made with acerola fruit juice and orange peel. It was nice and fruity, and also got me a bit buzzed, so that I could get up the courage to try…